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There have been previous and similar experiments or projects like this in other schools in America. These results suggest that the new activities are better because extra or special reading comprehension programs better prepare students to understand what they are reading and comprehend more than basic ideas of the text.
Students that participate in these programs develop a better sense to understand and like what they are reading, considerably increasing their focus and attention.
These programs have resulted positively when trying to improve the marks of the students, compared to other traditional approaches.
Pretty sure the correct answer is 9/25
This is quite a complex problem. I wrote out a really nice solution but I can't work out how to put it on the website as the app is very poorly made. Still, I'll just have to type it all in...
Okay so you need to use a technique called logarithmic differentiation. It seems quite unnatural to start with but the result is very impressive.
Let y = (x+8)^(3x)
Take the natural log of both sides:
ln(y) = ln((x+8)^(3x))
By laws of logarithms, this can be rearranged:
ln(y) = 3xln(x+8)
Next, differentiate both sides. By implicit differentiation:
d/dx(ln(y)) = 1/y dy/dx
The right hand side is harder to differentiate. Using the substitution u = 3x and v = ln(x+8):
d/dx(3xln(x+8)) = d/dx(uv)
du/dx = 3
Finding dv/dx is harder, and involves the chain rule. Let a = x+ 8:
v = ln(a)
da/dx = 1
dv/da = 1/a
By chain rule:
dv/dx = dv/da * da/dx = 1/a = 1/(x+8)
Finally, use the product rule:
d/dx(uv) = u * dv/dx + v * du/dx = 3x/(x+8) + 3ln(x+8)
This overall produces the equation:
1/y * dy/dx = 3x/(x+8) + 3ln(x+8)
We want to solve for dy/dx, achievable by multiplying both sides by y:
dy/dx = y(3x/(x+8) + 3ln(x+8))
Since we know y = (x+8)^(3x):
dy/dx = ((x+8)^(3x))(3x/(x+8) + 3ln(x+8))
Neatening this up a bit, we factorise out 3/(x+8):
dy/dx = (3(x+8)^(3x-1))(x + (x+8)ln(x+8))
Well wasn't that a marathon? It's a nightmare typing that in, I hope you can follow all the steps.
I hope this helped you :)
You add 6 to the numbers on the left so like it’s -8 on the left just add 6 so that’s -2 and so on
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